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STEM work earns award for SCOE’s innovation director Lilibeth Pinpin, Director of Innovative Programs and Student Success for Solano County Office of Education. FAIRFIELD — Lilibeth Pinpin is starting to rack up the awards for her work at the Solano County Office of Education. Pinpin, the director of Innovative Programs and Student Success, is the recipient of the University of California, Davis C-STEM Administrator of the Year award. “Students of Solano County have greatly benefitted fro...

Read Time: Since antiquity, cultures around the world have been extracting vegetable oil from plants to use as food and fuel. Some vegetable oils have important health benefits, including lowering cholesterol levels and decreasing the risk of cardiovascular disease. But theres a problem: Vegetable oils are traditionally extracted from fruits or seeds, and the extraction process often leads to the rest of the plant being discarded in the process. Now, Jay Thelen, a professor of biochemistry at...

Credit: University of Missouri. Since antiquity, cultures around the world have been extracting vegetable oil from plants to use as food and fuel. Some vegetable oils have important health benefits, including lowering cholesterol levels and decreasing the risk of cardiovascular disease. But theres a problem: Vegetable oils are traditionally extracted from fruits or seeds, and the extraction process often leads to the rest of the plant being discarded in the process. Now, Jay Thelen, a professor...

Teen entrepreneurs see success with code and mirrors Jack O’Regan Kenny and Alice Shaughnessy. Image: Mirr Mirr, a start-up turning the mirror into a smart device, emerged from this year’s Patch accelerator for young entrepreneurs. Mirr is a tech start-up founded by two first-year engineering students, Alice Shaughnessy and Jack O’Regan Kenny. Call it a smart mirror or a reflective tablet, Mirr is a device that lets users stream Netflix, listen to Spotify or check the weather while mainta...

The U.S. Embassy in Athens and the Greek nonprofit organisation SciCo, have launched STEM STARS GREECE, a competition that supports and rewards 14 to 18-year-old students interested in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The top performers will represent Greece at the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), the world’s largest international science competition, which will take place virtually in May 2021 under the auspices of the Ministry of Education and Relig...

Last year,   gave $100 awards to outstanding young inventors in Society Affiliate Fairs with middle school participants around the country. This is the second year of a three-year grant where young innovators will be recognized. The prize was especially created to reward young inventors whose projects exemplify the ideals of inventive thinking by identifying challenges in their communities and creating solutions that will improve lives. Plastic pollution is a ubiquitous environmental problem....

For Alexzaundréya Cotton, a seventh grade life sciences teacher at the UChicago Charter School in Woodlawn, the turn to distance learning since March has led to obvious difficulty continuing the same kind of hands-on science learning without a classroom full of tools. "It definitely has required a lot more creativity, teaching science completely remote," she said in an interview. "One of the biggest things Ive tried to overcome is just getting the kids to stay active and engaged." When Cotto...